The Lighthouse Keepers

The Lighthouse Keepers, a new work of historical fiction by Faye Pound, is set on early 19th century Prince Edward Island, where Meda MacKenzie lives a life of isolation, tending the St. Peters Lighthouse alongside her stern Scottish father and twin brother. Towering, flame-haired, and fiercely capable, she longs to uncover the truth about the mother she never knew.

When the lighthouse keeper’s daughter falls for a young Acadian man––despite her father’s resentment towards his people––tragedy strikes, setting her on a path of heartbreak and reinvention. Disguising herself to keep another light alive, she clings to her secret––until a chance meeting at a community gathering reveals the hidden truth of her past.

The Lighthouse Keepers is a novella of love, loss and a woman’s determination––a perfect read for those drawn to the historical richness and beauty of PEI. Pound explores Canada’s theme of the two solitudes with an atmospheric storytelling that will be remembered long after the last page is turned. 

Pound is an Island writer, singer, and public speaker who is passionate about PEI history and particularly the conservation of its architectural heritage. She researched Scott Smith’s Historic Architecture of PEI, wrote The Heritage Walking Tour of Summerside (2000), and contributed a Journal-Pioneer column on Prince County culture and heritage. For well over a decade, she has identified hundreds of buildings for the Province of PEI and for peihistoricplaces.ca.

Raised in a family of ten in Alexandra, across the bay from Point Prim, she watched the lighthouse most nights of her childhood. Those years included a one-room school, lots of music, old stories, and then Father Bolger’s UPEI. After a couple of years of “Going Down the Road” to perform and record in southern Ontario, she returned to settle down on “The Island” and raise three daughters.

Published by TwiG Publications (The Writers In Group), the book is available at the Point Prim Lighthouse Gift Shop, Bookmark, and Beaconsfield Historic House. The Lighthouse Keepers is Faye’s first historic fiction with The Bootlegger’s Daughter coming out soon.